AI job threats stoke concern as True Believers gather

The impact of AI on the Australian workforce will be a major talking point when Labor members meet. Photo: Susie Dodds/AAP PHOTOS In a few days' time, the Labor party will hold its first national conference of the AI era. When thousands of attendees converge on the Adelaide convention centre for the three-day event, discussions are expected to be dominated by the sprawling ramifications of the new technology across countless industries. From office blocks and newsrooms to the roads and wharves, unions want assurances about AI's impacts on jobs and the broader economy to be written into the Labor party's chief policy document. While government sources hope the prime minister's…